The Marin County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed the identity of a man whose body was found in a wilderness area more than four decades ago.

In November 1982, the skeletal remains of a 5 foot, 8 inches tall male, likely between the ages of 60 and 70 years old, were found in the Muir Woods National Monument near the Deer Park Fire Trail in Marin, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The remains could not be identified and remained unknown for the next four decades.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.